William Matthews was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1942 and died
suddenly in November, 1997, in New York City. The last book he saw
to publication, Time & Money (1995), won the National
Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1997 he won the Modern Poetry
Association's Ruth Lilly Award. After he graduated from Yale
College and earned a Master's degree from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, he began his teaching career at Wells
College in Aurora, N.Y. He then taught at Cornell University, where
he ran a small press, and at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
From 1978 to 1983, he was a professor of English at the University
of Washington in Seattle; from 1983 until his death, he taught at
the City College of New …

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